[We] Exist to Relate: August 2008

I Quote...

"The widest possibilities
for spiritual growth
lie in the give-and-take
of everyday relationships."
~ Eknath Easwaran

"Kindness in words
creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking
creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving
creates love."
~ Lao Tzu (600-531 BC)

"There is no need
for temples, no need
for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart
are my temples;
my philosphy is kindness."
~ the Dalai Lama

"Art, after all, is about
rearranging us,
creating surprising
juxtapositions,
emotional openings,
startling presences,
flight paths to the
eternal."
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
& Benjamin Zander

"The good life is
inspired by love
and guided
by knowledge."
~ Bertrand Russell

"Really great people
make you feel
that you, too,
can become great."
~ Mark Twain

"Everything that irritates
us about others can
lead us to an
understanding of
ourselves."
~ Carl Jung

"All things appear and
disappear because of the
concurrence of causes and
conditions. Nothing ever
exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation
to everything else."
~ Buddha

"We can live without
religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive
without human affection."
~ Tenzin Gyatso,
14th Dalai Lama

"Creativity is allowing
yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
~ Scott Adams

"I laugh, I love, I hope,
I try, I hurt, I need,
I fear, I cry. And I know
you do the same things too.
So we're really not that
different, me and you."
~ Colin Raye

"Your task is not
to seek love, but merely
to seek & find all the
barriers within yourself
that you have built
against it."
~ Rumi

"They may forget
what you said,
but they will never
forget how you
made them feel."
~ Carl W. Beuchner

"There are all kinds of
love in this world,
but never the
same love twice."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A strong positive mental
attitude will create more
miracles than any
wonder drug."
~ Patricia Neal

"The more I think it over,
the more I feel that there
is nothing more truly
artistic than to love people."
~ Vincent van Gogh

"Flatter me, and I
may not believe you,
criticize me, and I
may not like you,
ignore me, and I
may not forgive you,
encourage me, and I
will not forget you,
love me, and I
may be forced
to love you."
~ William Arthur Ward

"The opposite of play
is not work,
it's depression."
~ Brian Sutton-Smith

"The highest result
of education is
tolerance."
~ Helen Keller

"Between stimulus and
response there is space.
In that space is our
choice of a response.
In our response lies
our freedom and our growth."
~ Viktor Frankl

"Examine your own heart and mind.
I am merely a mirror in which you
are looking at yourself."
~ J. Krishnamurti

"Love is,
above all,
the gift of oneself."
~ Jean Anouilh

"The secret of genius
is to carry the spirit
of the child into old age,
which means never losing
your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley

"What we see depends
mainly on what
we look for."
~ John Lubbock

"Love one another
and you will be happy.
It's as simple and
as difficult as that."
~ Michael Leunig

"It is human nature
to think wisely
and act in an absurd fashion."
~ Anatole France

In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein

"I only went out for a walk
and finally concluded
to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found,
was really going in."
~ John Muir

"What would we have to
hold in compassion
to be at peace right now?
What would we have to
let go of to be at peace
right now?"
~ Jack Kornfield

"The meeting of two
personalities is like the
contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any
reaction, both are
transformed."
~ Carl Jung

"Maybe
you're searching
among branches
for what only appears
in the roots."
~ Rumi

"Your daily life
is your temple
and your religion.
When you enter into it
take with you your all."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"In the practice
of tolerance,
one's enemy
is the best teacher."
~ Dalai Lama

"It is the mark of an
educated mind to be
able to entertain a
thought without
accepting it."
~ Aristotle

People take different roads
seeking fulfillment and
happiness. Just because
they're not on your
road doesn't mean
they've gotten lost."
~ Dalai Lama

"I close my eyes
in order to see."
~ Paul Gauguin

"...and I look up
and the whole world
is as it should be..."
~ Ani Difranco

"Gratitude
is the best attitude."
~ Author Unknown

"When eating bamboo sprouts,
remember the man
who planted them."
~ Chinese Proverb

"Love is the only
sane and satisfactory
answer to the problem
of human existence."
~ Eric Fromm

"The art of love...
is largely the
art of persistence."
~ Albert Ellis

"(Sometimes) it's a form of love
just to talk to somebody
that you have nothing
in common with and
still be fascinated
by their presence."
~ David Byrne

"We waste time looking
for the perfect lover,
instead of creating
the perfect love."
~ Tom Robbins

"Love is my religion -
I could die for it."
~ John Keats

"Courage is the discovery
that you may not win,
and trying when
you know you can lose."
~ Tom Krause

"Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more;
hate less, love more;
and all good things
are yours."
~ Swedish Proverb

"My religion is nature.
That's what arouses
those feelings of
wonder and mysticism
and gratitude in me."
~ Oliver W. Sacks

"The greatest discovery
of my generation is
that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitudes
of mind."
~ William James

"Everything has its
wonders, even darkness
and silence, and I learn
whatever state I am in,
therein to be content."
~ Helen Keller

"Love one another
and help others to rise
to the higher levels,
simply by pouring out love.
Love is infectious and
the greatest healing energy."
~ Sai Baba

“Grace is the kindling of the heart
and the illuminating of the mind."
~ John S. Dunne

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